The link in bio built for writers

For freelance writers the best link in bio is one that reads like a clips portfolio, not a list of buttons. Folio pulls the title and icon for every piece you link, gives NDA and ghostwritten work a place too, and keeps your payment details behind a password. It's free and takes about ten minutes.

Your clips are everywhere except together.

A writer's proof lives on other people's domains: a feature here, a newsletter there, a ghostwritten piece you can only describe. Editors and clients decide in one glance, and a list of naked links doesn't show range. Worse, the order is wrong: your strongest clip sits wherever the platform put it, not where you'd put it. A portfolio is an argument about what you can do, and you should be the one making it. Your bio link should read like a portfolio, ordered by you.

The blocks that matter for you.

Lead with your three best clips as link blocks, Folio pulls the title and icon automatically so each one reads as a piece, not a URL. Add a short text block that says what you write and for whom, because an editor skimming twelve pitches wants the one-line answer before the samples. Then your newsletter or Substack, a contact card so a commissioning editor doesn't have to find you on three platforms, and a Pay-Me block for when the kill fee or invoice conversation comes.

What to put in your link in bio as a writer

1. 1

   Your three best clips

   Paste the URLs and each pulls its own title. Pick for range, one reported piece next to one essay says more than five of the same thing.

2. 2

   A one-line niche statement

   What you write and for whom, in a sentence. It's the first thing an editor checks against their brief.

3. 3

   Your newsletter or Substack

   Ongoing work proves you write without being commissioned, and it's the fastest way for a reader to become a client.

4. 4

   A contact card

   A commissioning editor with a deadline won't hunt through your socials. One tap to email keeps the assignment alive.

5. 5

   A Pay-Me block

   Your payment details behind a password, ready for the invoice, the upfront half or the kill fee.

Set it up in ten minutes

1. 1

   Claim your handle

   folio.link/your-name. Sign in with Google or a mail code, no password to invent.

2. 2

   Paste your clips

   Each link pulls its title. Drag them into the order that makes your argument.

3. 3

   Add your niche line, contact and Pay-Me

   One sentence on what you write, an email, and a password on your payment details.

4. 4

   Paste the link everywhere

   X bio, LinkedIn, your email signature and the pitch you send tomorrow.

Get paid without chasing.

Per-project work means a new payment conversation every month, and writers carry the worst of it: invoices that clear on the publication's schedule, kill fees nobody wants to bring up, clients who go quiet when the draft's delivered. Keep your details in Pay-Me, share the password when a piece is accepted, and the awkward part becomes a link. There's no invoice tool to set up and no fee taken out. You keep 100% and Folio never touches the money.

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